(CNN) - While making a campaign stop Thursday in Colorado, Mitt Romney said he met with McKayla Hicks, a victim of last month's movie theater massacre in Aurora.

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee began his remarks by mentioning Hicks, who was hit by a bullet that took out some teeth and part of her jaw while seated in the theater next to the one where most of the shootings occurred.- Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker

"But she is here and doing well," Romney said at a speech in the city of Golden. He called for the audience to express solidarity for the victims and their families.

"I guess, maybe by applause we show how united we are with the tragedy of those people, how much we love them how much we care for them," he said.

The weekend following the July 20 shooting, both Romney and President Barack Obama suspended campaign activities and stripped their ads from Colorado airwaves.

Two days after the massacre, which killed 12 and left scores wounded, Obama flew to Aurora to meet with families of the victims.

At a San Francisco fundraiser the same day, Romney said it was the "right thing" for the president to visit the town.

"I know the president will be there before he'll be here in San Francisco visiting with families and the victims, which is the right thing for the president to be doing on this day. I appreciate that," Romney said.

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You people love to talk bad about the republicans, but yet you continue to vote them in office!

August 2, 2012 03:45 pm at 3:45 pm |

Done is Done

@Fair is Fair
"According to the hospitals, any expenses not covered by insurance,whether any is in force, will be absorbed by the hospitals themselves."

so in the end, we taxpayers have to pay for their medical cost, and I thought you repubtards are against it....

August 2, 2012 03:45 pm at 3:45 pm |

Rudy NYC

"I guess, maybe by applause we show how united we are with the tragedy of those people, how much we love them how much we care for them," he said.
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Uh,oh. Wait just a second. Is that a gaffe that I am reading? Applause? Are you mitten me?

Doesn't this guy know about a moment of silence for those who died? A moment of silent prayer for those who were most seriously injured?

August 2, 2012 03:45 pm at 3:45 pm |

Darryl

LOL...LOL...LOL.... I have to laugh ! Boy it took him almost 2 weeks to go there ? I really hope for Gods sake the people of this country truely don't take this guy sceriously. If we had a national disaster like Katrina, I'm sure he would be the same as BUSH and respond when he has time, like BUSH did. Thats what I call LEADERSHIP ( NONE ) !

August 2, 2012 03:46 pm at 3:46 pm |

Silence DoGood

And Obama by contrast demanded specific gun control measures be taken. Oh wait, HE DIDN'T.

Obama and Romney will do nothing about gun control. Obama just sounds so much better doing nothing.

August 2, 2012 03:51 pm at 3:51 pm |

Bootstomper

Willard recent life time member of the NRA. He should have had that chump Wayne lapiere with him.

August 2, 2012 03:53 pm at 3:53 pm |

truth hurts

>Malory Archer – Where do you think the hospitals get the $$$ that enables them to "absorb"
>those costs – from the Keebler elves? They get it by gouging the insured.

and the government which is far easier to steal from as nobody is watching the money. when we have universal healthcare that the government pays for (aka us, the taxpayer, what few there are left), the government will go broke or will more likely ration what it pays for. the older people being shot, well, their time will be up. just not worth saving them as they are likely a drain on the treasury anyways.

August 2, 2012 03:55 pm at 3:55 pm |

truth hurts

>Darryl – Boy it took him almost 2 weeks to go there

why should he rush there and get in the way, just to get free publicity and politicize it? obama had already done that job, as usual. and you would have attacked him ha dhe been there earlier. lefties are a real joke. they'll use anything to further their pathetic losing cause.

August 2, 2012 04:05 pm at 4:05 pm |

bb

Darryl what did you do to help??? oh you cashded your welfare check!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August 2, 2012 04:07 pm at 4:07 pm |

Jake

Rudy NYC, re bills: Good point, but in addition to the doctors' bills, don't forget rehabilitation, in-home nursing, prescriptions, and probably some mental health care for months or even years for some of the victims. The bills don't stop with the hospital and the docs, and for those without insurance there is a long road ahead of financial woe.

August 2, 2012 04:08 pm at 4:08 pm |

Vivian Bennett

Republicans are very compassionate, and I am glad to support Mitt Romney.

August 2, 2012 04:12 pm at 4:12 pm |

Vivian Bennett

I am glad he waited and didn't make it political like our Dear Leader did.

Good luck Mitt!

August 2, 2012 04:13 pm at 4:13 pm |

Lionel

A little too late Robme. Why didn't you cancel your trip to Europe maybe you would not have so many gaffes.

August 2, 2012 04:15 pm at 4:15 pm |

Dr. D. Miller

The billing this care to RomneyCare.. He was the first to come with with this ideal but don't want to take credit for it. Just like he came up with Bain Capital Outsourcing but Still don't want to take credit fro that either.. You know he does a lot of things that he simply don't want to take credit for except being a Tax Evader and Draft Dodger...

August 2, 2012 04:21 pm at 4:21 pm |

shirlee

When will Romney get off of President Obama's record and talk about his? His nontransparent tax and financial statements,,if he's saying we know enough ,,,I'm sorry we're not all on life support out here and we're still paying taxes so we deserve to know. If there's NOTHING to HIDE whats the problem???? WHO IS MITT ROMNEY??? President OBAMA,,,4 more years!

August 2, 2012 04:22 pm at 4:22 pm |

Sniffit

"and the government which is far easier to steal from as nobody is watching the money. when we have universal healthcare that the government pays for (aka us, the taxpayer, what few there are left), the government will go broke or will more likely ration what it pays for. the older people being shot, well, their time will be up. just not worth saving them as they are likely a drain on the treasury anyways."

You should probably take a step back, put down the butane lighter and the glass pipe and then go look at the effusive praise Mittens leveled at Israel's gov't run single-payer health care system just last week. They basically have an even more robust version of the ACA in place and spend 10% less of their GDP on health care.

Brass tacks: It's not that everyone will be geting healthcare and paying for it that bothers you. It's that everyone includes certain "others" you really don't want anything to do with and wish would leave the country.

August 2, 2012 04:22 pm at 4:22 pm |

Sniffit

"Lisa P: I am sure if he did say he would pay her medical bills, you democrats will say that he is buying her vote. So please make such a stupid comment."

Well, to be honest, he'd very likley be violating some pretty strict rules that exist precisely to prohibit candidates from doing things that create that impression. It helps protect the integrity...or at least the appearance thereof...of our electoral systems.